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7 7 7 Birds of Different Feathers

Feathers of birds fall into one of seven broad categories based on their structure and location
on the birds’s body.
Observe the different kinds of feathers given below.

Bristle

Contour

Filoplume

Wing Down Tail Semiplume

Have you ever seen a bird without feathers? All birds have feathers and birds are the only
animals with feathers. However, it would be inaccurate to use feathers a way of defining
birds. This is mostly because there were several non-bird dinosaurs that had wings. One of
these was the Caudipteryx. This species had wings but they were not sufficient for flying.
These extinct bird-relatives did use the feathers and plumage for many other adaptive
things. Such as insulation, breeding and camouflage.

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